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imperfections of drafting, is not one which the Committee could ever recommend for adoption by His Majesty's Government. The Policy Committee should be empower ed • without further reference to the Cabinet, to draft criticisms on this Model for the guidance of the British Representative at Geneva.
(vii) The Scheme for Financial Assistance
to States Victims of Aggression.
The Cabinet should instruct the Departments concerned (the Treasury and Foreign Office) to submit their views to the Cabinet Committee on
Policy in sufficient time for their consideration before the Recess, and the Cabinet Committee should be empowered, without further reference to the Cabinet unless such a course should seem to the Cabinet Committee to be necessary,
to draft instruction for the guidance of the British Repre- sentative when this question comes up for consideration by the Assembly in Geneva.
(viii) As regards the Private Manufacture of
Arms, that the Report of the Sub- Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, attached as Appendix II to C.F.-253 (28), should be approved as the basis of the instructions of the British Representative at Geneva when this Convention comes up for consider- ation. In particular, the Cabinet Committee endorsed the principle set out in the second paragraph of the Report, which governed the principal recommendations covered therein, that "the provision of any Convention in regard to the private manufacture of arms should also be applied to the manufacture of similar articles carried out in State-owned or State- controlled factories.
and that His Majesty's Government should only agree to adhere to the Convention on the express under- standing that its provisions are applicable also to State manufacture".
In the course of the discussion the Lord
Privy Seal explained to the Cabinet that the French proposals in regard to Capital Ships and Aircraft Carriers were in general agreement with the views
hitherto adopted by the British Government.
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